monsterravinglooney
Are you referring to the USS New Orleans that was CL 22? I would love to do a conversion since I really like that old turn of the century look, but the quick poking around I've done looking at pictures for comparison; I don't see any similarities between the Ting Yuen and the New Orleans. One was built in Germany the other in Britain. If you could elaborate on this some more I would appreciate it, since I may not be looking in the right places.
The ref to New Orleans was perhaps not well thought out, kind of a bondo-blip.
The best I can try to CMA is that New Orleans was built in the same yard as Chih Yuen and Chin Yuen, and that I see the answer to Mansteins question as-
any one who gets interested in turn of the 20th century warships has a good chance of learning a lot about the world at that time, since they were pretty emblematic of power and technology.
But you are right, I compared twin funnel cruisers, while I meant British cruisers.
The Russian cruiser Varyag that Tracy mentioned was built by Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia.
The IJN Mikasa was built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.
All of which is to say that there's a great deal of fruit to be picked studying all of the ships built by the few countries capable of doing so, where they went, where they ended up; from that period. Cruisers were a good design in terms of commerce raiding, denial and counter denial of sea power.
And Captain McGiffin, former USN commanded a ship at the Battle of the Yalu River.
It's hard not to like this stuff, at least for me.
The Spanish Cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa 1895.